2IPAs & I have been banned from Rock Bottom. It's not because we were too drunk or anything like that, but the management there committed fraud in a ticket sale charitable event. We use to let them raffle off a week at our OBX beach house and they sold lots of raffle tickets. But we began to realize management had made a decision to pre-select the raffle winner. So we pulled out and 2IPAs can tell you being banned from Rock Bottom was the best thing that could have happened.

Really? How do you brew? Kits? Recipes? Winging it with your own recipes?

My average is much closer to 90-95%....

mostly recipes, but I usually add lib spices and extracts - it can either work really well- a box of crushed kumquats in the boiler along with belgian candi and a trappist yeast made one of my favorite beers of all time, other times not so much. If I follow a standard recipe, I can get what the recipe is going for, but I like to try for stuff that I can't buy and my imagination often gets the better of me.

Initially, having a policy of only refilling the establishment's growlers may have been based in the idea of increasing brand loyalty. But as soon as a couple of places broke away from that policy, most brewers realized it was better not to require the glass have been from their establishment

i would think most craft beer drinkers have zero brand loyalty. just looking for the next thing

mostly recipes, but I usually add lib spices and extracts - it can either work really well- a box of crushed kumquats in the boiler along with belgian candi and a trappist yeast made one of my favorite beers of all time, other times not so much. If I follow a standard recipe, I can get what the recipe is going for, but I like to try for stuff that I can't buy and my imagination often gets the better of me.

See that is the wonders of homebrewing. Experiment and be imaginative. For me though I'm still going mainly off of recipes or lately I have been trying to compile my own.